Unable to attend this week's annual TED conference in Vancouver, the company instead released a video showcasing an in-development game that will have you wiping drool from your chin.

"Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to TED, but we wanted to share one of the things that we'd planned to share at the talk. This is a game we're playing around the office right now," the YouTube video description said.

Based on Weta Workshop's steampunk brand Dr. Grordbort, the mysterious game is played with physical gun props and what is presumably a headset (unseen in the video).

As zombie-like robots attack, the player must aim and shoot with the fake pistol, leaving animated scorch marks on walls and floors. In-game weapons are also available, including a sort of futuristic cannon.

"No robots were harmed in the making of this video," the Magic Leap's description said.

The company revealed no additional information about the demo. A Magic Leap spokesman declined to comment to PCMag.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Florida, Magic Leap was born out of the idea that people should come first, and computing and technology should fit our needs, the startup said.

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Silicon Valley apparently agreed. Last fall, Magic Leap pulled in $542 million in funding from tech giants like Google and Qualcomm. As part of the deal, Google senior vice president Sundar Pichai now sits on the startup's board of directors.

Apple, meanwhile, is reportedly working on its own augmented reality technology, presumably to compete against the likes of Magic Leap, as well as to take on Microsoft's HoloLens, and any future iterations of Google Glassboth of which overlay digital information on the physical world.

Stephanie began as a PCMag reporter in May 2012. She moved to New York City from Frederick, Md., where she worked for four years as a multimedia reporter at the second-largest daily newspaper in Maryland. She interned at Baltimore magazine and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (in the town of Indiana, in the state of Pennsylvania) with a degree in journalism and mass communications.
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